Space Industry Analysis
Mar 25, 2013
Helicopter upgrades breathe new life into old fleets
Mar 25, 2013
Each year, in addition to naming Laureates, Aviation Week honors outstanding cadets at U.S. military academies as Tomorrow's Leaders. The awards are sponsored by BAE Systems. This year, four cadets were named and recognized at the Laureates gala by Aviation Week President Greg Hamilton.
Mar 25, 2013
The final chapter has apparently opened in the turf war among national security agencies over which should control the most prominent weapon system in use since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Mar 18, 2013
Is not rushing to secure longer-term, more efficient deals
Mar 18, 2013
Australia's startup satellite operator NewSat will launch the Jabiru-1 satellite in early 2015 after spending several months finalizing more than $400 million in export-credit-agency financing.
Mar 18, 2013
Companies that market Russian and Ukrainian launch services are banking on their hardware suppliers to get their acts together— and on continued demand for satellite launches—to keep satellite operators returning their telephone calls in the face of ongoing quality-control problems plaguing the once-proud space industry set up by the former Soviet Union.
Sep 22, 2020
Finland-based Iceye has closed an $87 million series C financing round to complete its planned 18-satellite constellation of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) microsatellites and to build a U.S. manufacturing and engineering hub.
Sep 21, 2020
Key to the effort is Congressional appropriation of $3.2 billion in fiscal 2021 for commercially developed Human Landing Systems, NASA says.
Sep 21, 2020
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a $298 million contract to rapidly prototype the payload for the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program that will ultimately replace the Advanced Extremely High Frequency system.
Sep 21, 2020
Much of the growing global enthusiasm for a post-Apollo return to the Moon with human explorers is focused on the lunar south pole.
Sep 21, 2020
OneWeb has renegotiated its contract with Arianespace and plans to resume launching its broadband satellite network in December, pending court approval of its Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
Sep 21, 2020
Development of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) H3 has slipped at least three months following the discovery of faults during testing of the…
Sep 18, 2020
Former International Space Station commander and three-time shuttle astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria is heading back to orbit, this time as on-site personnel for Axiom Space’s first private mission to the ISS.
Sep 18, 2020
The potential follow-on order is one of three options in consideration for the Navigation Technology Satellite program (NTS)-3.